Four people were killed and 10 more wounded in a shooting at a child’s birthday party in Stockton, Calif., on Saturday night, officials said.
Children and adults were among those shot, but the victims were not publicly identified by Sunday afternoon. No suspects have been detained or named in the shooting.
“A birthday party should never be a place where families fear for their lives,” Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee wrote on Facebook. “Violence touched my life as a young person, and seeing our own children, parents and neighbors go through this shakes me deeply. Stockton is my home. These are our families. This is our community.”
The shooting erupted around 6 p.m. in a banquet hall that shares a parking lot with several more businesses, the San Joaquin County sheriff’s office said. It appeared to be a “targeted incident,” authorities said.
Police released few additional details about the shooting in the city of 320,000 people about 60 miles inland from San Francisco Bay.
“Investigators are exploring all possibilities,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post. “Detectives are actively working to determine the circumstances leading up to this tragedy.”
Saturday night’s shooting was the second-deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. this year, behind only an October shooting in Mississippi that left seven people dead and 12 others wounded. Nine suspects have been arrested in that case.
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